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Monica Bellucci Quotes

I don’t work all the time. That’s why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don’t want to put my work first anymore because it’s not as important as my children.

– Monica Bellucci

I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.

– Monica Bellucci

If you have a script that’s not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who’s not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

– Monica Bellucci

I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you’re by yourself in front of the wall, and I’m always scared that you’re not good like when you are in real when you act.

– Monica Bellucci

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

– Monica Bellucci

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

– Monica Bellucci

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.

– Monica Bellucci

When you’re in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be ‘you’ means nothing – you can be so many yous.

– Monica Bellucci

British people don’t express when they are in pain. They don’t think it’s elegant.

– Monica Bellucci

When a relationship doesn’t work anymore, it’s terrible to stay with someone that you don’t love.

– Monica Bellucci

Sometimes I’ve done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn’t matter because you want to work with the director.

– Monica Bellucci

Sometimes it’s more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

– Monica Bellucci

My body is an object of work. That’s why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you’re a pianist, you have your piano. If you’re a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you’re a dancer, or you’re an actor – your instrument is your body.

– Monica Bellucci

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

– Monica Bellucci

I don’t stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life.

– Monica Bellucci

The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that’s all that matters.

– Monica Bellucci

I have a lot of adrenaline. I have a naturally fast system. But I love to eat, and I am not skinny.

– Monica Bellucci

I wanted to do ‘Matrix’ because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, ‘Wow – I’ve never seen something like that; it’s so incredible.’

– Monica Bellucci

People assume I work hard on my body, but I honestly don’t.

– Monica Bellucci

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

– Monica Bellucci

I speak a little Portuguese, but my daughter speaks it better than me. I always feel that Italy is my home, but it is important for my husband that we also live in France. Sometimes we live as a family all together, but as we are two working actors, sometimes we have to be apart. Sometimes I’m shooting a movie; sometimes he is.

– Monica Bellucci

I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.

– Monica Bellucci

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

– Monica Bellucci

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

– Monica Bellucci

I like to do on screen what I’m not in life. In life, I’m much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

– Monica Bellucci

If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that.

– Monica Bellucci

I’m a true woman, not a Bond girl. That’s why I say all the time, ‘James Bond lady,’ ‘James Bond woman.’

– Monica Bellucci

In acting process, it’s very difficult to explain. It’s something very intimate, very private.

– Monica Bellucci

I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It’s really regenerating.

– Monica Bellucci

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It’s like in ‘Birdman.’ Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you’re not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can’t let that happen.

– Monica Bellucci

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